By saving his 1 amnesty clause, Joe D is basically saying that it is possible that he might create a contract that is actually worse than the ones of BG and CV. Tell me that is not a scary thought.

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By saving his 1 amnesty clause, Joe D is basically saying that it is possible that he might get released as GM for making a poor amnesty decision. Can you imagine Gordon averaging 22 points per game next season. Tell me that is not a scary thought.

By saving his 1 amnesty clause, Joe D is basically saying that it is possible that he might get released as GM for making a poor amnesty decision. Can you imagine Gordon averaging 22 points per game next season. Tell me that is not a scary thought.

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You are going too far here. Remember, Dumars hired again new coach and I'm more than sure - coach wanted to asess his troops personally. In internet -world fants throw away and hire daily , in real life - you can't take your decisions back. Besides, amnesting either BG or CV is pointless - even cuts do not give reamarkable cap relief. For agressive free agency you need 15 or so mil under cap and Detroit is practically dead last, speaking of market attractivity anyway. In short - the best hope is to try to trade beforementioned players during contract year.

It doesn't make sense to use your 1 amnesty without a clear target. You can always negotiate buy-outs or flat out waive a player. There will be cap implications but in general teams can afford that because a player my have negative impact on the team.

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Wilson Chandler and/or Jeff Green, I think you can get them both for about $15M, if you add another player via the lottery (Thomas Robinson) we're as good as as Indy, Philly and Atl, which is a good first step.

Wilson Chandler and/or Jeff Green, I think you can get them both for about $15M, if you add another player via the lottery (Thomas Robinson) we're as good as as Indy, Philly and Atl, which is a good first step.

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Do you like Draymond Green in the 2nd round? You can never have enough green...

The primary reason why we didn't amnesty Rip and waived him instead is because Joe D. decided to take care of Rip. If we amnestied him, he would have no choice in where he would go (like Billups). With the buyout, he was able to sign wherever he wanted. The Pistons organization (not just Joe D. as this would've had to be done with Gores' approval) just took care of a good player who brought home a championship. This was a big "thank you" parting gift to Rip. That's all.

Rashard Lewis
Remarkably, Lewis' contract on paper constitutes more than half the committed salary the Wizards have for next year. But his contract is actually a lot friendlier than that. Only roughly $7-8 million of that contract is guaranteed for next season. [footnote: Lewis' contract on paper pays him $22,152,000 this year and $23,790,000 next year. Before this season, ESPN reported that less than $30 million of his remaining contract was guaranteed, meaning that roughly $7-8 million of next year's contract is guaranteed.]

This affords the Wizards four options with Lewis: [fast-forward to option 4]

4. Trade Rashard Lewis. This represents the Wizards' best chance to bring in real, tangible help. Unfortunately, this also represents the greatest risk. Why would anyone want to trade for Rashard Lewis? The premise is simple. A team has some bloated contracts they want to get rid of. Since Lewis is due $23 million on paper, that is his number for trade purposes. That means a trade partner can send the Wizards roughly $20-30 million in players for Lewis, then buy out Lewis for the guaranteed portion of his contract ($7-8 million). Who are possible trade suitors? It is too early to tell, but every year teams are trying to get rid of contracts, and the Wizards can be opportunistic. The downside is that by definition, this strategy involves absorbing contracts that another team doesn't want. But the Wizards' cap situation is friendly enough that this is certainly a viable and worthy strategy to pursue.

Thank you. Amnesty clauses, waivers & trades all apply to the guaranteed part of the contract. Not the total worth. If someone is amnestied, you only have to pay the difference between what their auction value is and their guaranteed contract value.

The first year that we had him was his worst year ever from a shooting standpoint, but he came to a team that was pretty strange. We still had Chucky Atkins who started 11 games and played a fair amount. We had Rip hogging the 2 spot. We had Stuckey, Bynum, and Summers all getting real minutes as well. Bynum started in 20 games that year compared to Ben Gordon's 17 starts. The lineups were constantly shuffled and we didn't exactly put him in a position to succeed. In addition to that, Ben came from a playoff team to a team that was 27-55 and couldn't get an open shot playing with our bench threats like (Atkins, Summers, Kwame Brown, and Austin Daye. His ast% and stl% were at or above his career averages though.

And even though the .470 eFG% was the worst of Bengo's career, he still had the highest eFG% of any guard on the Pistons that year:
Bynum- .455
Rip- .437
Atkins- .433
Stuckey- .413
Summers- .412

Last year with us, Ben was back to his old form with his 3rd best shooting year ever. This year, he's right about on his career average.

It is sort of sickening to think that we got the guy that Joe thought we would get and it may be the worst contract in the league. We will be paying him over $13M a year in 2014 to come off the bench, hit some 3 pointers, and commit some fouls. But unlike most bad contracts, this one isn't caused by injury or decreased performance. It was bad from the get-go.

I saw that the other day. His turnover rate is basically the same as well. The problem is he needs the shots to cancel out the unforced turnovers and other liabilities. Shots come from other folks. So we either need to get more shots over all (faster pace) or other folks will shoot less. I am a big proponent of getting JJ 10+ shots every game. He's not a go to scorer but he's a good indication that the ball is moving and people are in the right spots.

Gordon is essentially the same type of player as JJ Reddick, Kyle Korver, Jordan Farmar etc. Those guys all make about 40% of what Gordon is raking in. BenGo's one advantage over these guys was supposed to be the fact that he can create his own shot. As horrid as his ball handling is, that's not always working so well.